The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle

FAIN: RQ-230411-15

Duke University (Durham, NC 27705-4677)
David R. Sorensen (Project Director: December 2014 to September 2021)
Stephen Cohn (Co Project Director: December 2015 to September 2021)

The preparation for print publication of volumes 43, 44, and 45 of the Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, and publication of volumes 39-41 in an existing online archive. (36 months)

Begun in 1970, the Duke-Edinburgh edition of The Collected Letters of Thomas [TC] and Jane Welsh [JWC] Carlyle is regarded by biographers, historians, critics, students, and general readers as one of the finest and most comprehensive literary archives of the nineteenth century. Forty-two volumes have been published to date in book form by Duke University Press, and the first thirty-eight volumes have been published in the Carlyle Letters Online (http://carlyleletters.org), with volumes 39-41 now in the process of being encoded, edited, and set for release in spring 2015. This culmination of a thirteen-year effort to bring the Carlyles to the digital world has greatly increased the global accessibility of the edition. Through November 2014 of the current grant period, which began in October 2012, the CLO has had more than one million of its full-text pages accessed in more than 180 countries and has established itself as a leader in the now essential field of digital humanities.

Associated Products

Carlyle Letters Online (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Carlyle Letters Online
Author: Brent E Kinser, Colin Wilder, David R Sorensen
Abstract: The migration in July 2016 of the dramatically retailored Carlyle Letters Online (CLO) to its new web platform hosted by the University of South Carolina's Center for Digital Humanities (USC-CDH)--a new room in the increasingly sprawling mansion of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium heralds a signal moment in the evolution of the CLO.
Abstract: The migration in July 2016 of the dramatically retailored Carlyle Letters Online (CLO) to its new web platform hosted by the University of South Carolina's Center for Digital Humanities (USC-CDH)--a new room in the increasingly sprawling mansion of the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium heralds a signal moment in the evolution of the CLO. The VLLC
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://tundra.csd.sc.edu/vllc/
Primary URL Description: Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium
Secondary URL: http://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/the-carlyle-letters-online-has-a-new-home/
Secondary URL Description: Duke University Press announces the new home of the Carlyle Letters Online
Access Model: Open Access

Prizes

Research Library Grant
Date: 1/6/2016
Organization: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
Abstract: Carlyle Letters Online, $12,000 matching funds to develop a new environment in the CLO devoted to the presentation of manuscript and photographic images, with work to be completed by Spring 2017.

The Carlyle Letters Online and the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Carlyle Letters Online and the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium
Author: Brent E Kinser and David R Sorensen
Abstract: Kinser and Sorensen were invited to speak at an International Conference hosted by the British Library, entitled "Archival Uncertainties: International Conference on Literary Archives."
Date: 04/04/2016
Primary URL: http://www.bl.uk/events/archival-uncertainties-international-conference-on-literary-archives
Primary URL Description: British Library
Conference Name: Archival Uncertainties: International Conference on Literary Archives

Carlyle Letters Online (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Carlyle Letters Online
Author: Brent E. Kinser and David R. Sorensen
Abstract: Victorian Metropolis: London in the Correspondence of Dickens and Carlyle. A presentation hosted by the Carlyle House, London, with talks by Brent E. Kinser, David R. Sorensen, and the editor of the Dickens Studies Quarterly, David Paroissien.
Date: 05/22/2016
Primary URL: http://dukeupress.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/happy-birthday-thomas-carlyle/
Primary URL Description: News From Duke University Press
Secondary URL: http://dukeupress.wordpress.com/
Conference Name: Carlyle House, Chelsea, Evening Presentation

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